Faster than a speeding bullet

Researchers also hope to develop a kind of molecular chain mail that can deflect bullets.

"Imagine the psychological impact upon a foe when encountering squads of seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities, such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls," ISN director Ned Thomas said in a release.

I think someone at MIT has been reading too many X-Men comics.

Alternatively if they start to call these things «scramble suits», add in an active camoflage capability, and deploy them among DEA agents, then the universe has officially gone weird.

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Is it my imagination, or is that "imagine" paragraph written with an underlying assumption that only one side will develop these things?

Yep. We have MIT so we get the nano-armor. The Japanese have Keio University, so they get the 14-foot hydraulically powered armored exo-skeletons with rocket boots and retractable wings. (The Romanians already have an army of vampires waiting, but that's a secret. And why Romania isn't part of the Axis of Darkness.)